New MCP Microsoft Enabled Connectors Appeared in the M365 Admin Center
So I have been working on setting up Copilot connectors to ingest data from some other services, so have been reviewing the portal from time to time. Today, I checked and 9 new connectors where in there, all enabled by Microsoft automatically and made available to all users.
Seem this is part of some new Federated Copilot Connectors: https://m365admin.handsontek.net/microsoft-365-copilot-introducing-federated-copilot-connectors/
I have 9 of the 10 that are listed in this article:
- Canva
- HubSpot
- Linear
- Intercom
- Google Calendar
- Google Contacts
- Notion
- S&P Global
- Moody’s
- LSEG
I guess I missed the very small 7-day window where we would have seen them and would have been able to review and decide if we should disable them.
Is anyone else seeing these? What have you been doing about them?
My first thought is to immediately disable them, and then send them over to compliance and security, since it seems all the user has to do is log into any of these services and they would immediately have that data within their Copilot.
Really getting tired of all this "new" stuff that gets shoved to our users and then having to figure out if we have to do anything about it.
Edit: Here's Microsoft's official documentation: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/copilot/connectors/federated-connectors-overview
And here's how to disable them which also applies to new ones going forward: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/copilot/connectors/manage-federated-connectors#configure-the-federated-connector-toggle
Set-FederatedConnectorToggle
The note they have is key:
>The tenant toggle automatically applies to future federated connectors. If you disable the toggle, new connectors appear in a disabled state. If you enable the toggle, new connectors follow the default rollout behavior.